queensland Glen Lyon Dam and the river below

[tomca]

Had to work Saturday so ended up hitting the water at 5.30 after setting up camp. With no idea what I was doing, I pulled up on a point and cast a tn60 along the weed edges. Unfortunately there were random strands everywhere and kept fouling the lure. Changed to a spinnerbait and 5 casts into my trip I was on! Up comes a 50cm cod. Quick pic and he's away. As the sun goes down and the moon comes up I caught silver perch and another cod. The wind started to pick up around 7 so I headed in to the ramp. Thank goodness for the moonshine, as I would have been stuffed if it was dark.

This morning, not feeling well, I had a late start and hit the water around 10am and headed for the caves and caught 3 more cod and another silver. All on spinnerbaits.

Back at camp I became ill and decided to jam my gear in the boot and drive home 2 days early.

All 5 cod ranged from 44-50cm and the perch in the low 30's

Sorry about the angle of the pic. Using a new tripod and just getting a feel for it

[tomca]

Last cod caught today up at the caves

[tomca]

When I dragged my ass out of bed this morning I trekked along the river below the wall for this one

[Angus]

tomca wrote:

Last cod caught today up at the caves

Great picture!

Well done mate!

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well though. 5 cod would have to be pretty good medicine though right?

Angus

[mangler]

Good effort mate, few nice cod there, pity about the trip being cut off short. Very surprised that you didn't get onto any yella's as bycatch at this time of year.

Cheers,

Matt

[tomca]

I wish Gus. I get hayfever sometimes and out west, rarely, something triggers a really bad reaction, my head wants to explode, and vomiting. By the time I hit Stanthorpe, I was feeling much better and nearly turned left at Warwick for a couple of days at Leslie Dam.

Matt, somehow I managed to keep my yella record intact. They are to me, what a cod has been to Jimmy

Just gotta find something to do tomorrow. Maybe I;ll go for a fish :laugh:

[Rocket75]

Great looking fish there Tom, shame you got crook.

I'm guessing you'll be back there sooner rather than later (hopefully with me as deckie )

[Keen-as-fisho]

Nice cod tom, well done. Shame about cutting the trip short though.

I just realised that glenlyon dam is about 20 minutes drive from a property we go piggin on, which has pike creek (which is the feed of the dam) running through the guts of it, weve fished pike creek a few times but not much luck. Ill have to do a week trip there, two birds one stone

[Feral]

Probably the Burr bush is flowering, it does me over real bad this time of year if I am out west. I have to live on antihistamines for the 2 or 3 weeks it flowers.

You got some nice cod in your short stay! I'm also surprised you didn't cop some yella's as well with lures that small!

[Plastic Man]

Nice report mate pretty little cod mate well done

Hows the ramp out there mate can a two wheel drive handle it ?

[tomca]

Rocket, deckie spots are always available, you didn't put your hand up.

Feral, dunno what that is, but I have my suspicion its those little purple flowers that grow low on grassy paddocks.

Plasticman, my falcon had no probs with the ramp, but with my boat I need a pretty steep ramp otherwise I have to skull drag the boat up over the rear rollers, so the ramp could be steeper for me.

And with 4hours boat time and an hour on foot, I am very happy with the results. Pity about the 620km travel for an overnight trip

[ellicat]

Nice to see they were onthe chew for you. I've never seen a silver at GL.

[Davo_Dinkum]

nice fishing and fish.

bugger about the hayfever.

[Rocket75]

tomca wrote:

Rocket, deckie spots are always available, you didn't put your hand up.

....

I was keen, but my office was moving this week and I couldn't get any time off (just had 2 weeks )

Next time :woohoo:

rocket

[tomca]

Elli, they come out from under the weedbeds along the steeper banks. Must be a few in there, I saw heap have a swipe at the spinnerbaits, but I wasn't using a stinger hook so to minimise damage to the cod, coz those buggers aren't shy to strike

[tomca]

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[tacklebox]

Congrats Tom. It's nice to set yourself a goal and achieve it.

124km per cod is not so bad!

[Dinodadog]

well done on the cod nice fish

[kriso]

missed this report, awesome session mate! shame about feeling crook though, i dont get hayfever but know plenty people who do and it cripples them sometimes too. how long does it take to drive to GL.

[tomca]

I take it easy and it was under 4 hours to get there. From Stanthorpe to the dam and back I didn't pass a single car, so it would suck big time to have a mechanical failure out there with no phone.

[kriso]

hahha Gus i think we need to do a road trip in the new year! lol

[rayke1938]

Krisco.

is that your cod attractant uniform that you are wearing in your new/old avitar?

Cheers

Ray

[tomca]

Gus's new boat is perfect for it, just try not to sink it hauling a 1m+ cod over the side.

I'll definitely be up for it if you guys head up, the cabins might be the go, air con in the heat of the day :cheer:

My plan was suss out the dam in the first couple of days then chase the big buggers.

I'll need to get some of those big yankee spinnerbaits from somewhere, probably online.

[kriso]

Tomca- im pretty sure BCF keeps the cod size ones from TT in stock.

Ray - you have blown my secret weapon for the BRC lol

[tomca]

the mankini might not attract the fish but it will keep everyone the hell away from his spot :laugh:

[kriso]

hahah yep thats how it works, though the first year i fished it i was drifting down a creek near riverlink and this old dude decided to come out of his yacht naked and stand on his boat watching us fish while eating a bowl of cereal, it made me change spot so im thinking the mankini may work this year lol!

[tomca]

Bumped up for fisherjack.

And if I recall, the_duke also posted a report since mine

[Kenshin]

hey mate well done 3 cod id be happy with one, do you think fishing weedless rigged worms would have been as effective for cod in the same situation?

what gear were you using for the cod?

cheers

[fisherjack1394]

hey thanks for bummping this up for me mate. i'll have a look and try and find the other report

cheers jacko